At the Car Wash
She is 64 and owns the car wash where I work
yells at everyone equally her oldest employee
has been with her 27 years he gets paid $7.11 an hour
the rest of us get six
we spend ten hours get paid for eight
she keeps the money from the tip jar all to herself
lets the staff run a tab at the snack bar
$2 hot dogs, $1 pops, fifty cents bad coffee
(one guy had a $163 deducted from a cheque)
holds are pay ten days
she grosses about $20 a car
300 cars some days
her husband died two years ago
There is a picture and a newspaper article
of a thoroughbred she owns hanging on the wall
and a big safe with no security
but I'll leave her like she is alone
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